Salesforce.com taps Autodesk's Mark Hawkins as CFO

Summary:At Autodesk, Hawkins played a heavy hand in the design software maker's transition to a cloud and mobile-focused business model while also overseeing more than 50 acquisitions during his tenure.

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At Autodesk, Hawkins played a heavy hand in the design software maker's transition to a cloud and mobile-focused business model while also overseeing more than 50 acquisitions during his tenure.

Smith announced his intended retirement back in February amid Salesforce's fourth quarter earnings report, promising to help throughout the search process and transition period before a departure in March 2015.

After joining Salesforce in 2007, Smith has been CFO since March 2008.

Since then, Smith oversaw the integration of more than 30 acquisitions as Salesforce has seen its annual revenue climb from $750 million in 2007 to a projected $5 billion next year.

Hawkins will report directly to Salesforce.com co-founder, chairman and CEO Marc Benioff, who in prepared remarks described Hawkins as the "right person to succeed" Smith.

Prior to Autodesk, Hawkins also served as CFO of finance and IT at Logitech following a number of finance and leadership roles at Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Plex Systems.

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